RealNetworks has settled a suit brought by Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna over unwanted charges that consumers received on credit card bills related subscriptions for TV and sports programming… Read More

Kal Raman, the former Amazon.com and drugstore.com executive who stepped down as CEO of Bellevue-based GlobalScholar last September, has been named senior vice president of Groupon overseeing operations in ten countries in… Read More

Is RealNetworks becoming a farm system for the Seattle region’s aspiring public companies? Tracy Daw, who resigned as RealNetworks’ chief legal officer earlier this week, has been hired as general… Read More

William Blake, the former general manager of parallel computing platforms at Microsoft Corp., has been named senior vice president and chief technology officer at supercomputer giant Cray Inc. Blake has more… Read More

Robert Wise has been named chief innovation officer at MTN Satellite Communications, charged with building up the company’s product and technical team in Seattle. Wise most recently served as an… Read More

RealNetworks has cut another 22 jobs, shaving its workforce in an ongoing effort to focus its business. The layoffs were made last week, including some at the company’s Seattle headquarters,… Read More

Steve Ballmer was right. It’s all about developers, developers, developers these days. In fact, the market is so hot that companies like Amazon.com, Twitter and Facebook are doing “acqui-hires” —… Read More

Yapta has named GameHouse president Matt Hulett to the board, part of an ongoing transformation of the Seattle startup from a consumer travel company to one focused on business-to-business services.… Read More

Another day, another executive departure from RealNetworks. Yesterday, we reported that chief financial officer Michael Eggers — a 14-year veteran of the company — was stepping down. Now, we’ve gotten… Read More

RealNetworks continues to churn through top executives, with the Seattle digital media company announcing today in a SEC filing that Michael Eggers has resigned as senior vice president and chief… Read More

It was a tough year for most of the publicly-traded tech companies in Washington state, with just a handful posting positive overall stock performance. Even tech titans like Amazon.com, Microsoft… Read More

Rhapsody says it has surpassed 1 million paying subscribers — leveraging its MetroPCS partnership, its recent acquisition of Napster and the rise of mobile devices to solidify its position as… Read More

[Updated with comments from Rob Glaser] RealNetworks just named Thomas Nielsen as its new chief executive officer, filling the spot vacated by the surprise departure of Bob Kimball earlier this… Read More

Facebook is beginning to expand its Facebook Credits system beyond its own social networking site with a new initiative called Facebook Credits for Websites. Seattle-based GameHouse, the RealNetworks games division,… Read More

RealNetworks this morning named one of its existing executives, Judith Bitterli, as the new senior vice president of its Unifi cloud computing division. The news follows the surprise departure this… Read More